SOL 25- Trifolds

          Throughout my time at Logan, I have made four trifolds. Lets just say there has been a lot of progress in the quality department. The first trifold was made when I was studying Native Americans in Upper IS. At the beginning of my unit, I had visited a Native American art gallery. One of my other focuses was the Sand Creek Massacre. Who else but me would try to combine murals with a massacre? Basically, I had way too little information on massacres and the modern white man's affect on Native American populations, so I decided to do a large scale painting of the Sand Creek Massacre site based on the paintings I had seen previously that year. It was about the quality you would expect from someone who had barely ever used a paintbrush and thought they would paint the next Mona Lisa. It was rough and, honestly, a little bit not OK in hindsight as a little white boy was turning a horrific massacre site into an art project.
        The next year, I made a trifold on Feng Shui and Taoism in architecture. There were three main sections, one for each section of the trifold. They each had a decent amount of information, but in the end it was just a way to look like I had done more for my unit overall. I color coded each section so they would be obviously separate instead of mounting the entire trifold consistently. In the end, I got marked off on my rubrics for my color coordination. I was mad. I asked the teacher, and they said that it was too diverse. Since then, I have stuck to monochromatic or single colored mounting on my displays. Never again will I get such a low score because someone's taste differs from mine.
          The first trifold I made this year displayed a collection of pressed plants I made. This was a pretty empty trifold because the main focus was the six miscellaneous species. This is probably one of the most polished trifolds I have done. There was not any mounting or illustrating involved, so things were already better. This project took a long time just because of the entire plant pressing process. I really liked this project because I left it pretty blank. I really liked this because the majority of my projects are super cramped.
          My last trifold at Logan was just finished this afternoon. It is on the history and evolution of birds. It has a crap ton of illustrations, mounted paragraphs, and it is rather full. I never intend to create as much as I always do for this kind of project, so this trifold ended up really full. After approximately three hours of mounting, I was able to assemble everything together. It worked out well, in my opinion. Compared to my first crappy mural centered trifold, I think I have gotten a lot better. My spring unit this year is birds, so the entire evolution bit is quite important. The trifold does a good job of tying my entire display together. Don't worry, I color coded all of my mounting with my books and mobile, so I wont get marked off for that.